Health of the Nation; Health of the Planet: Medical Priorities and Supply-side Controls
Policy makers not only seek to make baseline health care available to everyone, but are asked to determine what kinds of medical needs should be given priority. Great Britain has been making what are essentially rationing decisions for decades, spen...
Taking the Pulse: Skyrocketing Medical Costs
Even for those who have health insurance, the skyrocketing cost of medical care presents an enormous challenge. Many health organizations refuse to cover the cost of procedures doctors consider necessary and, increasingly, the burden for paying the ...
Taking the Pulse: Managed Care
Many Americans say they don't trust managed care because they believe it is set up to simply make money for insurance companies, rather than provide people with adequate health care.
Taking the Pulse: Health Care Outside the United States
In most industrialized nations outside the United States, universal health care coverage is commonplace and access to treatment is not based on the patient's ability to pay.
Families Today and Tomorrow: Family Challenges: Healthcare
The challenge of meeting America's health care needs continues to defy easy solution. This is especially problematic for many working families that lack adequate health insurance.
What Price?: Healthcare Dilemma: Do Other Nations Have the Answer?, The
Are there approaches to health care or decision-making models other countries use that might prove helpful? Dr. William Schwartz comments on the results of his investigation of the British healthcare system. From an international perspective, most c...
What Price?: Healthcare Dilemma: Efficiency of the Healthcare Delivery System
Another factor in the healthcare equation is the efficiency of the delivery system itself. Many hospitals have not been operating at full capacity; some are closing for this reason. Hospitals with trauma centers find it particularly expensive to mai...
What Price?: Healthcare Dilemma: No Easy Answer, The
Competing need...limited dollars. Should more people be served a little less well or should medical care be provided, regardless of cost, to anyone who can afford to pay for it? Renowned health policy experts and health care professionals probe the ...
What Price?: Healthcare Dilemma: Solution Strategies, The
In the last few years, many healthcare solution strategies have been placed on the table. The fact that no definitive course of action has been adopted reflects the complexities of the issues involved. Equitable access to the healthcare system, many...
What Price?: Staggering Costs of Healthcare in the United States
The figures are staggering. Forty-four million people in the United States are not covered by health insurance of any kind; two-thirds of the unprotected are children. At the same time costs for even simple tests and procedures are rising at an alar...